# What steps should the Julia community take to bring Julia to the next level of popularity?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389 "2023-07-09T09:59:36Z")
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I suppose 1.9 could be the next Julia LTS, and if it very to be supported for thee years, then I don’t seed it as bad to start looking into releasing Julia 2.0. Most code should be compatible, and tested, with both.

> [@New Julia LTS? Are many using the current (Julia 1.6) LTS?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-julia-lts-are-many-using-the-current-julia-1-6-lts/93919/22):
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> [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/46501#issuecomment-1229191867](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/46501#issuecomment-1229191867)@viralbshah Is that still on the table and then 1.9 as LTS? Since Statistics hasn’t yet been made a stdlib, and you continue with: Hopefully we have conditional dependencies in place by then, and can even move out SparseArrays and perhaps a few other things as well for the new LTS. JuliaSyntax.jl has been merged into 1.10, which is now alpha1. It would be nice if it were used in LTS, since it has faster parsing, and bette…

> [@gdalle](#):
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> a lot of improvements to the language can be implemented in a non-breaking way, as the recent 1.9 and upcoming 1.10 demonstrate.

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